Cory Trépanier

After graduating from Humberview Secondary School in Caledon, Ontario, Trépanier studied illustration at Sheridan College for four years. The ensuing decade saw Trépanier freelance as an illustrator, creating paintings for numerous advertising agencies, magazines and government organizations, including the National Capital Commission, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.

In 1997, Trépanier's career began to shift from commercial illustration to the pursuit of his fine art: painting the Canadian landscape in oils.

In 2001, Trépanier launched his Coast To Canvas Project.[1] Often accompanied by his wife, Janet, and two young daughters, Trépanier painted, filmed, canoed, hiked and camped for almost a month in each season along the coasts of Ontario's Lake Superior and Georgian Bay, a region then designated as the Heritage Coast. This led to the Coast To Canvas Exhibition Tour in 2004 consisting of over thirty oil paintings and a one-hour documentary called A Painter's Odyssey, Cory and Janet's first film.

In 2006, Trépanier launched Into The Arctic Project: An Artist's Journey to the North,[2] a multi-year painting project that has seen him undertake three extensive painting/filming expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. He is developing an unprecedented collection of fifty original oil paintings of the Arctic, including a 15 foot wide by 5.5 foot high canvas called Great Glacier, which will become one of the largest oil paintings ever from the Canadian Arctic.

In addition to sharing his experiences through online video journals, photography, writing, public speaking and the media, Trépanier has also created two films from his Arctic project: Into The Arctic, and Into The Arctic II, which have been broadcast on numerous networks including CBC Documentary,[3] HIFi,[4] Bravo, Canal D, APTN, SCN, CLT and on selected networks internationally.

In 2005, A Painter's Odyssey won the Best Environmental Documentary at the Waterwalker Film Festival.

In 2013, Trépanier's Into The Arctic II documentary was nominated for Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series [5] at the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly the Geminis).

In 2009, Trépanier became a Fellow of The Explorers Club.

In 2012, Trépanier became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.